Scene from the third round of the Pet Cup pet competition's revival round.
Cheng Huaijin was watching the battle from the sidelines, his eyes fixed on the Black Egg Beast.
The Black Egg Beast and she watched the competition intently, their expressions mirroring each other's. The two winners would become Cheng Huaijin's opponents and advance to tomorrow's finals.
Song Siyun was also one of the contestants, but when Cheng Huaijin saw her this time, she was in even worse condition.
In contrast, the Flower Shadow Beast's state can only be described as incredibly powerful.
Both its speed and skill accuracy were excellent. This made Cheng Huaijin and the Black Egg Beast feel a sense of crisis.
After considering all factors, they both agreed that Song Siyun posed the greatest threat.
"Hehe," the black egg beast said seriously.
Cheng Huaijin nodded, his face also serious: "That's right! We need to be careful tomorrow. But it seems that the most powerful skill of the Flower Shadow Beast is Flower Shadow Illusion. You've encountered this mental attack before, remember?"
"Hehe!" Black Egg Beast indicated that it remembered!
Cheng Huaijin stroked its eggshell: "However, the Gale Wolf last time wasn't high level, so you could charge in headfirst. But if you were to face a Flower Shadow Beast, it would be a bit dangerous."
She focused her consciousness on the wrist mark and reviewed the Black Egg Beast's data again.
Pet: Black Egg Beast (suspected mutated)
Stage: Infancy
Age: 1 year old
Rating: 6/10
Skills: Slap (Fire), Immovable (Fire), Vine Whip (Wood), Poison Leaf Blade (Poison), Harden (Harden), Black Flame Meteor (Black Flame Meteor), Energy Clash (Skill), Water Barrier (Water Barrier) (Level 1).
After continuous battles, the Black Egg Beast's overall level increased by one, while Poison Leaf Blade and Black Flame Meteor each increased by one, but the Water Curtain Barrier did not upgrade.
Therefore, combat is the fastest way for pets to level up. Cheng Huaijin didn't feel anything about her level change, mainly because she directly reached level four and opened five pet spaces, which could be considered a max level in a sense. To level up further, she would need to contract five or more pets. Currently, Cheng Huaijin has a Black Egg Beast and a Dragon Egg, and she still needs at least four more pets to reach the max level of level five.
Thinking about it this way, it seems like all the contracts are for eggs... I feel like a mother bird.
The communicator vibrated, and Cheng Huaijin opened the message.
This was a message from their homeroom teacher, Hu Dingbo, asking Cheng Huaijin and Song Siyun to come back to school and find her after the competition.
Cheng Huaijin replied with "okay," then sent a message to Song Siyun and went outside to wait for her to come out so they could go back to school together.
Black Egg Beast was very curious about every pet that appeared in front of it, poking and prodding it here and there, which was quite annoying to other pets.
"Hey!" The black egg beast covered its head in grievance and muttered in Cheng Huaijin's arms, "Hehehe, hehe!"
Cheng Huaijin stroked it with a mixture of speechlessness and heartache, giving it a piece of pet chocolate to comfort it: "Who told you to go and pull the tail of that clucking chicken? You were just asking for trouble."
"Hehe! Hehehe!" The black egg beast was unconvinced and continued to act unreasonably while eating.
"Alright, alright, that clucking chicken too. You're still an egg, a chick. It should give way to you."
"Hehe!" The black egg beast thought that the beast tamer had finally spoken a human word.
Cheng Huaijin silently added insult to injury: "But it was your fault for being so impulsive. Luckily, I apologized quickly enough, and the beast tamer didn't hold it against me, otherwise you definitely would have..."
"hey-hey!"
"Okay, let's go check out the pet center in a bit, it'll be ready soon!"
Hehehe!
"Then just stop being naughty in the future. Only your Beastmaster can tolerate your habit of pulling hair, you know that?"
"hey-hey!"
"No way, I'm going to have a serious talk with you today..."
"Let's go." A clear female voice interrupted the childish bickering between the human and the beast. Cheng Huaijin and the black egg beast turned their heads at the same time and saw Song Siyun looking at them.
The two of them paused for a moment with an unusually similar expression, then pretended nothing had happened, one combing her curly hair and the other carrying her backpack.
Oh, and Cheng Huaijin also bought a little pink comb for the black egg beast! It's so cute!
I didn't expect Black Egg Beast to like pink! I thought it liked purple, since its patterns are all purple.
"Let's go!" Cheng Huaijin didn't expect that his classmate had caught him arguing so childishly with the black egg beast, and he just wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Song Siyun nodded without saying anything and followed Cheng Huaijin toward the school.
The school was less than a 30-minute walk away, so the two decided to walk there since they had plenty of time.
Cheng Huaijin was chatting with Song Siyun about recent current events, such as which pet food company was exposed for using ordinary ingredients to process pet food, and a well-known beast tamer being accused of rigging a competition... Basically, Cheng Huaijin was the one talking, and Song Siyun was listening quietly, occasionally responding with a few words.
In Song Siyun's world, entertainment gossip is a taboo subject that cannot be touched, as it would affect her studies.
"Wait!" Song Siyun suddenly spoke up.
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Cheng Huaijin asked. The black egg beast sat on Cheng Huaijin's head. Cheng Huaijin was wearing a hat today, so the black egg beast sat very steadily and looked at Song Siyun with a puzzled expression.
Song Siyun panicked for a moment: "I suddenly remembered that I have something to do at home. I'll go first. You go find Teacher Hu. If you need anything, just tell me through the communicator."
By the end, her voice was even trembling slightly.
"What's wrong with you?" Before she could finish speaking, Song Siyun ran off in one direction.
Cheng Huaijin finished speaking in a low voice: "If you're in such a hurry, you might as well fly away..."
"Hehe," the black egg beast said in confusion.
Cheng Huaijin's expression turned serious: "What did you say? There was a sudden appearance of energy, and then you sensed the aura of the Flower Shadow Beast?"
"Hehe." The Black Egg Beast indicated that the Flower Shadow Beast's aura had suddenly disappeared.
"Is it possible that the Flower Shadow Beast wanted to leave the wrist mark, but was then taken back by Song Siyun?" Cheng Huaijin asked.
The black egg beast said seriously, "Hehe."
- It smells bloody.
Cheng Huaijin asked, "Have you smelled blood?"
The man and the beast stared at each other silently.
Cheng Huaijin asked again, "Is there anything I don't know?"
Pet evolution is a rebirth in another sense. Although it retains some of the memories and habits from before the evolution, the evolved pet is a completely different species.
That's why Cheng Huaijin had questions, because the Black Egg Beast had been with her the whole time, and she didn't remember the Black Egg Beast ever coming into contact with blood or anything like that.
"Hehe," said the black egg beast.
-The taste of a pet's blood, I know that taste.
Cheng Huaijin looked into her innocent little eyes: "How did you know?"
"Hehe," the black egg beast said, gesturing excitedly.
- In my dream, I smelled this. I bled a lot, but it didn't hurt.
"Dreams?" Cheng Huaijin touched it. "You've been dreaming a lot lately. Is it because you're not getting enough nutrition for your growth? I'll go buy you some health supplements later."
Black Egg Beast said that eating more steamed buns would be fine.
Cheng Huaijin: "Silly child! That stuff has no nutritional value."
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